FOURTH ESTATE SACKING:

The ABC’s European correspondent Nick Dole has been summarily dismissed for missing the big story behind Sunday’s Trooping the Colour pageant in London.

To his credit, Dole readily admitted his totally unprofessional stuff-up as he was escorted (pictured above) from the ABC’s inner-London bureau yesterday afternoon.

“Any other journalist worth their salt instinctively picked the real story of the day; I have absolutely no idea how I missed it,” Dole apparently muttered as he left the building, his former colleagues turning their faces away in a mixture of disgust and disbelief.

And the big story Dole missed? The amazing way His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Cambridge – the third child of Prince William and Katherine, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Cornwall, the cheeky youngster who sadly is only fifth in line to the British crown – totally stole the limelight with a charming array of poked faces, goofy overreactions, pumped fists and cute waves to his adoring public during and after his grandfather King Charles the Third’s historic role on horseback at the front of the Trooping the Colour.

Just about the world’s entire media caught on to the fact that Prince Louis was clearly the centre of attention and stole just about everyone’s hearts as he rode on the horse-drawn carriage during the famous ceremony and afterwards on the balcony at Buckingham Palace where, as the BBC reported gushingly, he even saluted the crowd, the little darling.

Royal reporters from Australia’s commercial networks were among those who were totally unforgiving as they critiqued Dole’s dreadful lack of news sense.

Nine News reporter Carrie-Anne Greenbank had little sympathy for Dole, stating simply: “Nick stuffed up; it’s as simple as that!” after completing her own gushing account of how easily King Charles the Third had slipped into his role as Monarch of all the Commonwealth. She reported glowingly of how “a very cheeky prince Louis delighted royal fans”. Channel 7 and 10 also both easily picked up how Louis had completely wowed a grateful crowd, outperforming even his older sibling Prince George who ordinarily steals the show in a canter being so lovely and everything.

Channel 7 executives described Dole’s blunder as akin to reporting on President Kennedy’s trip to Dallas, Texas, in 1963 and forgetting to mention the assassination.

The Bug’s royal reporter Tristan Coyte-Rimmer was still shaking his head this morning over Dole’s “dreadful error of judgement”.

“Nick did mention in his report that some of the King’s grandchildren had been scared by the noise of the flyovers by various military aircraft but even normal, common, children who will never, ever, have the chance to be ordained by God himself to lead all the peoples of the Commonwealth could have been frightened by that. They are, after all, in their own circumstances, only human.”

And the ABC’s managing director David Anderson in a statement explaining Dole’s dismissal said simply: “The ABC will never play a back seat to commercial broadcasters in constantly reminding Australians how amazing all three of the Cambridges’s children are and how lucky all Australians are to know that Prince Louis’ older brother Prince George will in 80 or so short years from now be Australia’s Head of State and King of Australia.”

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